Passion has little to do with euphoria and everything to do with patience. It is not about feeling good. It is about endurance. Like patience, passion comes from the same Latin root: pati. It does not mean to flow with exuberance. It means to suffer.
Patience is only one faculty; earnestness the devotion of all the faculties. Earnestness is the cause of patience; it gives endurance, overcomes pain, strengthens weakness, braves dangers, sustains hope, makes light of difficulties, and lessens the sense of weariness in overcoming them.
Wisdom and power follow endurance and patience.
Without patience, you will never conquer endurance.
Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.
Endurance is the free companion of Sorrow, and Patience her master.
Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.
It is in length of patience, endurance and forbearance that so much of what is good in mankind and womankind is shown.
The office of president requires the constitution of an athlete, the patience of a mother, the endurance of an early Christian.
No one becomes pure and selfless overnight; it involves time and concentrated effort, coupled with tremendous patience and love.
As a healer, the first thing to tell every patient is to breathe deeply. Shallow breathing means no endurance, no patience.
Evil can never survive, though for a time it may seem to triumph. It is only a question of our endurance and patience.
To be a photojournalist takes experience, skill, endurance, energy, salesmanship, organization, wheedling, climbing, gatecrashing, etc. - plus an eye and patience.
The fruit of patience in all its aspects - long-suffering, forbearance, endurance, and perseverance - is a fruit that is most intimately associated with our devotion to God. All character traits of godliness grow out of and have their foundation in our devotion to God, but the fruit of patience must grow out of that relationship in a particular way.
Patience! Patience! Patience is the invention of dullards and sluggards. In a well-regulated world there should be no need of such a thing as patience.
Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.